Rd. 13 - Wed. 16th January 2019 vs. Central Coast, Gosford, 7.50 pm.

[jw1739]

Actually, the A-League seems to have its "rounds" mixed up and technically this is Round 12 and the Brisbane match was Round 13. But no matter.

Central Coast led Wellington 2-0 at HT today but went down 3-2 in the end. They look to be another fast-breaking team that could trouble us even with their poor record.

We could have a few injury problems, and Delbridge is suspended.

Thoughts?

Edited January 12, 2019 by jw1739

[AXIOM]

Richie will bang 2 away before they know it. Then we will park the bus...job done. 

[Missing_Moy]

Who would play LB if Jamo wasn’t fit ? Pierias ? 

Edited January 12, 2019 by Missing_Moy

[haz]

If we lose this, we should give our license to Canberra

[Afif Adam]

after ccm losing to wel 3-2 after being 2 goals up, there should be no reason for us to lose this...tis the only game wazza should be sacked if we lose 

[AXIOM]

8 minutes ago, Afif Adam said:

after ccm losing to wel 3-2 after being 2 goals up, there should be no reason for us to lose this...tis the only game wazza should be sacked if we lose 

Ccm were up 2 0 then coped a red. They might give us a touch up. 

[Afif Adam]

36 minutes ago, AXIOM said:

Ccm were up 2 0 then coped a red. They might give us a touch up. 

Welly played 3 at the back and were awarded with 2 undeserved soft penalties , Wazza might want to change his tactics after last night 

[neio]

Central Coast are as bad a team as I've ever seen in this league, they have at least 3 to 4 players starting that wouldn't get a game at another club 

This should be go there, get 3 points, and come home 

[n i k o]

Expect to miss Jamo. I'd say he's 50/50 at best. I've had those niggling groin injuries and they're a pain in the arse to have. I can see him being rested due to the short turn around but, assuming it's just a strain, be back for next Saturday's game.

[kingofhearts]

Should win this easy.

[Missing_Moy]

50 minutes ago, n i k o said:

Expect to miss Jamo. I'd say he's 50/50 at best. I've had those niggling groin injuries and they're a pain in the arse to have. I can see him being rested due to the short turn around but, assuming it's just a strain, be back for next Saturday's game.

Who takes his spot ?

[JMSTEP123]

2 minutes ago, Missing_Moy said:

Who takes his spot ?

Delbo? Or back 3? Pieras to RB?

[Missing_Moy]

26 minutes ago, JMSTEP123 said:

Delbo? Or back 3? Pieras to RB?

Delbo is suspended 

[bt50]

40 minutes ago, Missing_Moy said:

Who takes his spot ?

Either Malik or Pierias imo. Oe we play a more genuine 3 at the back and start Atkinson at LWB

[Shahanga]

Curtis played left back when on loan at Bradford. He’s not really a fullback but it would allow Wazza to fit another central defender into the team.

JVS would have played the youth left back.  Not sure who that is, but Joyce seems more inclined to play “first teamers” out of position 

[neio]

Do we also have an update on mcgree fitness? 

Who plays left back for our youth team, anyone know? 

[Imtellingyou]

You would expect from Joyce that Wales replaces Jamo.

[kingofhearts]

3 minutes ago, Imtellingyou said:

You would expect from Joyce that Wales replaces Jamo.

It's Brunos time to earn his way back into the team as a lb

[Inchcolm]

Don't worry Joyce will select his best 11 players and find a position for them in his 4:2:3:1 formation 

Edited January 13, 2019 by Inchcolm

[fensaddler]

I think we need to be cautious. We're away. We look to have some injuries. We have no genuine striker. And CCM gave Wellington a good working over before losing a man and copping a couple of penalties. We'll need to be right on our game. The last thing this needs is for anyone to believe this is a gimme, woeful as CCM have been this season. This has banana skin written all over it. 

[fensaddler]

Flo is fit and back in the squad, and only Big Boy Haz is out because of his suspension. Birighitti also misses out through injury and is replaced by Delkanov. Flo being back is definitely good news, given our limited attacking options. I guess we'll see how the rest pull up, but both Riley and Dario are mentioned as being OK. 

[jw1739]

6 minutes ago, fensaddler said:

Flo is fit and back in the squad, and only Big Boy Haz is out because of his suspension. Birighitti also misses out through injury and is replaced by Delkanov. Flo being back is definitely good news, given our limited attacking options. I guess we'll see how the rest pull up, but both Riley and Dario are mentioned as being OK. 

The team is in for our midweek clash with Central Coast Mariners in Gosford. See who’s in and who’s out of this week’s side.

Frenchman Florin Berenguer headlines the in’s for City this week with the attacker cleared of his long-term calf injury that has kept him out since round six against Newcastle.
Harrison Delbridge is the only casualty from last week with the defender picking up his fifith yellow card of the season meaning he’ll have to serve a mandatory one-match suspension.
After coming off with a knock to the knee in the first half of last week’s match, Riley McGree has recovered well from the contact, putting his hand up for selection this week while Dario Vidosic continues to manage his hip issue from pre-match against Newcastle.
Mark Birighitti also misses the trip to the Central Coast after picking up a back injury in the warm-up against Brisbane. Young goalkeeper James Delianov takes his place on the bench for the midweek clash on the coast.
Melbourne City take on Central Coast on Wednesday night at Central Coast Stadium, kick-off 7.50pm. City return to AAMI Park on Saturday as they face Perth Glory in a blockbuster clash, kick-off 7.50pm.
2.Ritchie De LAET, 3.Scott JAMIESON (c), 5.Bart SCHENKEVELD, 6.Osama MALIK, 7.Rostyn GRIFFITHS, 8.Riley MCGREE, 10.Dario VIDOSIC, 13.Nathaniel ATKINSON, 15.Kearyn BACCUS, 18.Eugene GALEKOVIC (gk), 19.Lachlan WALES, 21.Ramy NAJJARINE, 22.Curtis GOOD, 26.Luke BRATTAN, 27.Florin BERENGUER-BOHRER, 34.Connor METCALFE, 36.Dylan PIERIAS, 40.James DELIANOV
**two to be omitted**

Ins: 27.Florin BERENGUER-BOHRER (returns from injury), 34.Connor METCALFE (promoted), 36.Dylan PIERIAS (promoted)

Outs: 4.Harrison DELBRIDGE (suspended – 1 week)

Unavailable: nil

https://www.melbournecityfc.com.au/news/team-news-citys-round-12-squad-0

[haz]

11 minutes ago, jw1739 said:

Ins: 27.Florin BERENGUER-BOHRER (returns from injury), 34.Connor METCALFE (promoted), 36.Dylan PIERIAS (promoted)

Florian was have been so happy with Baccus signing on permanently his 'long-term' injury must have been magically cured!

[HEARTinator]

On 1/13/2019 at 7:27 PM, fensaddler said:

I think we need to be cautious. We're away. We look to have some injuries. We have no genuine striker. And CCM gave Wellington a good working over before losing a man and copping a couple of penalties. We'll need to be right on our game. The last thing this needs is for anyone to believe this is a gimme, woeful as CCM have been this season. This has banana skin written all over it. 

I feel ALL our games are banana skin games with Bruno sitting in the stand looking on and Wazza boy employing defenders as attackers. In Bort/Delbridge/Galek we trust

[Bob Latchford]

1 hour ago, fensaddler said:

Flo is fit and back in the squad, and only Big Boy Haz is out because of his suspension. Birighitti also misses out through injury and is replaced by Delkanov. Flo being back is definitely good news, given our limited attacking options. I guess we'll see how the rest pull up, but both Riley and Dario are mentioned as being OK. 

Birighitti isn't injured. He's leaving.

Squad has been submitted without him listed in any category, much the same as Bruno.

Coming back to the A-League was supposed to be guaranteed minutes for him regardless of results, yet he's found himself behind the most in-form 37 year old on the planet. 

[Missing_Moy]

6 minutes ago, Bob Latchford said:

Birighitti isn't injured. He's leaving.

Squad has been submitted without him listed in any category, much the same as Bruno.

Coming back to the A-League was supposed to be guaranteed minutes for him regardless of results, yet he's found himself behind the most in-form 37 year old on the planet. 

So he faked an injury in the warm up last week?

 

but if he was realeased it could free up some salary cap room for a better attacker in this transfer window ?

Edited January 15, 2019 by Missing_Moy

[jw1739]

13 minutes ago, Bob Latchford said:

Birighitti isn't injured. He's leaving.

Squad has been submitted without him listed in any category, much the same as Bruno.

Coming back to the A-League was supposed to be guaranteed minutes for him regardless of results, yet he's found himself behind the most in-form 37 year old on the planet. 

Well, if he is leaving it's no real loss is it? Galekovic is playing well (question on distribution however) and Bouzanis is still under contract for next season. Frees up further cap space if what you say is true.

But I wouldn't take too much notice of the squad list if I were you - City are notoriously sloppy in that respect. Some of the PR department's work smells strongly of cutting and pasting. La Rocca isn't mentioned either

Edited January 15, 2019 by jw1739

[Missing_Moy]

Line up

                    eugene

Atkinson Good Bart Jamo

            Baccus.   Griff

mcgree.     Brattan.   wales 

                    Richie 

BENCH - Deli, Malik, Pierias, Florin Nahjarine 

 

in Joyces presser he said Dario and Metcalfe unavailabile Mcgree trained well so straight back in and no mention of Jamo Also said Richie prob won’t play all 3 games in the next 6 days 

    

[HeartLand]

I find it hard to see Ritchie starting the next 3 games. If he's struggling he'll probably miss one or at least come off the bench will be interesting to see the line ups over the next week.

[jw1739]

1 hour ago, Missing_Moy said:

in Joyces presser he said Dario and Metcalfe unavailabile Mcgree trained well so straight back in and no mention of Jamo Also said Richie prob won’t play all 3 games in the next 6 days 

Oh how I wish City could get off their arses and find a roving microphone so that we could actually hear the questions...

[fensaddler]

3 hours ago, Missing_Moy said:

So he faked an injury in the warm up last week?

 

but if he was realeased it could free up some salary cap room for a better attacker in this transfer window ?

Agreed, I think he's genuinely injured as you say. But it is true that with Delianov covering and Galekovic in career best form, it might not be the daftest idea to move him on if someone wants him and/or he wants to go. Likewise LaRocca in all honesty. If it helps to free up space... 

[jw1739]

19 minutes ago, fensaddler said:

Agreed, I think he's genuinely injured as you say. But it is true that with Delianov covering and Galekovic in career best form, it might not be the daftest idea to move him on if someone wants him and/or he wants to go. Likewise LaRocca in all honesty. If it helps to free up space... 

We have to have a minimum of 20 on the senior list.

Maybe we've finally worked out "the Sydney method" - concentrate your resources on the preferred match-day squad and make up the balance with low cost squaddies.

[neio]

There was the rumour of Birighitti to Victory but let's just wait and see a couple of games before jumping to anything, our squads are always wrong 

I think this will be the game where we rest DeLaet and start him on bench

Changes from last game starters I think is Atkinson and Najjarine for Delbridge and DeLaet, with Wales going back up front 

[Inchcolm]

Joyce stated he would like to rest players over the next 3 games. I believe, he does not have the personnel to do that. We play 2 of the bottom 3 and Perth. He cannot afford to play anything but his best team team against Perth. Therefore in my opinion, he has to rest his key players against the bottom 3 teams. Our last game was against a bottom 3 team Brisbane and we struggled to hold on. So does it make sense to rest key players against CMC and WSW. First of all who can he rest in tomorrows games Delbridge gets a rest due to suspension and I think this will be the only player missing from the Brisbane starting 11. He also has a problem resting players with the use of subs due to DeLaet's injury. If the reports are to believed, he is having injections to get him through 60'-70' (I am surprised Villa have authorised this). Therefore, he has to save 2 subs until DeLaet has come off because if he uses 2 subs before removing DeLaet he runs the risk of a player picking up an injury in the last 15 mins and having no one left to raplace DeLaet or the injured player.

Resting players sounds like a good idea but we do not have the quality of players in depth to do this due to injuries, suspensions and players not available for whatever reason. If we want to keep this run going we cannot afford to rest key players

Edited January 15, 2019 by Inchcolm

[malloy]

16 minutes ago, Inchcolm said:

Joyce stated he would like to rest players over the next 3 games. I believe, he does not have the personnel to do that. We play 2 of the bottom 3 and Perth. He cannot afford to play anything but his best team team against Perth. Therefore in my opinion, he has to rest his key players against the bottom 3 teams. Our last game was against a bottom 3 team Brisbane and we struggled to hold on. So does it make sense to rest key players against CMC and WSW. First of all who can he rest in tomorrows games Delbridge gets a rest due to suspension and I think this will be the only player missing from the Brisbane starting 11. He also has a problem resting players with the use of subs due to DeLaet's injury. If the reports are to believed, he is having injections to get him through 60'-70' (I am surprised Villa have authorised this). Therefore, he has to save 2 subs until DeLaet has come off because if he uses 2 subs before removing DeLaet he runs the risk of a player picking up an injury in the last 15 mins and having no one left to raplace DeLaet or the injured player.

Resting players sounds like a good idea but we do not have the quality of players in depth to do this due to injuries, suspensions and players not available for whatever reason. If we want to keep this run going we cannot afford to rest key players

Tbh I would rest players against Perth. We aren't going to pick up points against them, but it would be a disaster to drop points agaibst the other two. Considering our game plans involve mostly defending 1 nil leads, resting a key player can lead to that one crucial error that results in dropping pounts.

[Inchcolm]

I agree but Joyce will not do that as it is admitting his team is not good enough to compete with Perth. He must put a belief in his players that they can beat Perth. 

[mus-28]

Anyone who's watched the Mariners the past few weeks would know they were absolutely bossing Sydney until the red card and were looking good for an upset over Wellington until the red card. I can't see it being a walk in the park, particularly if McGree is out, they'll happily sit back and defend while we slowly pass the ball around and hit us on the counter. 

[HeartFc]

62% possession and 88% pass completion, fuck the score. 

[playmaker]

Lets destroy these chumps.

0-3 De Laet, Brattan, Wales.

Come on City, fire up.

 

 

[neio]

Starting 11 changes. Malik and Atkinson in for Wales and Delbridge 

Edited January 16, 2019 by neio